Overview of the events of 1795 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1795 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 7 – Joseph Rodman Drake (died 1820), American whose poetry is first published posthumously in 1835
- August 30 – Amable Tastu (Sabine Casimire Amable Voïart) (died 1885), French women of letters and poet
- September 15 – James Gates Percival (died 1856), American poet and geologist
- September 29 (September 18 O.S.) – Kondraty Ryleyev (hanged 1826), Russian poet and revolutionary
- October 12 – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson (died 1873), Scottish poet and essayist
- October 31 – John Keats (died 1821), English Romantic lyric poet
- December 4 – Thomas Carlyle (died 1881), Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, teacher and critic
- Also – George Darley (died 1846), Irish poet, novelist and critic
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman (born 1740), Swedish poet and songwriter[6]
- April 22 – Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (born 1715), Irish poet
- July 31 – Basílio da Gama, writing as Termindo Sipílio (born 1740), Brazilian Jesuit and epic poet
- August 20 – William Jones (born 1726), Welsh radical, poet and antiquary
- September 22 – Sayat-Nova (born 1712), Armenian musician and poet, executed
- September 30 – George Butt (born 1741), English chaplain and poet
- November 17 – Samuel Bishop (born 1731), English poet, essayist and schoolmaster
- Also – Hedvig Sirenia (born 1734), Swedish poet